Image credit: Emma Turnbull

Emma is currently the captain of the women’s team for the second year, having been awarded full royals in her first year, she has been leading the squash team to one of their best seasons ever. Speaking to her, she talked about how she got into squash, and how her journey has been in Newcastle.

“I started off actually playing tennis, and then because Cayman gets hot in summer, it was too hot outside so the tennis club went to the squash club. My mum was like ‘why don’t you try squash’, and I’ve just continued from there and never stopped. I chose Newcastle because it was quite highly ranked for squash – at the time I think we were top ten in the UK – and also for my course. It had both the course I wanted and squash so it seemed like a good fit. Then I’ve been captain ever since my second year, and now I’m in my fourth year so that’s quite an achievement I feel.”

She also commented on how she felt being on the same team as Jade again. “We used to train together when we were juniors, so when Jade was looking for good squash unis I said, ‘come here so we can train together!’ It’s been really good, it’s nice to have someone from back home, helps the homesickness sometimes to have someone else around. She’s fit in really well too, we both just got awarded full royals from the Athletic Union and squash has just had its most successful season this year as well…